Spurs Balls: The Daily Mail’s Tim Sherwood Fanclub Loses Its Way

THE Daily Mail’s Neil Ashton was no fan of Andre Villas-Boas, picking holes in the soon-to-be-sacked Spurs manager.

But things at White Hart Lane improved when AVB was dismissed and trust Englander Tim Sherwood was appointed manager.

On December 19, Ashton wrote in the Daily Mail:

“To fund their ambitious project, Joe Lewis, the club’s principle owner, is relying on the riches from regular Champions League football. All they need is a manager to guide them there. Step forward, Tim Sherwood.

Managing Spurs is a doddle. Sure, it was a task beyond AVB, but Tim would do it. Tim as Ashton told us, was a “man’s man”.

But Tim has managed to be a rattier version of AVB. And on March 17, Neil Ashton wrote in the Daily Mail:

“This is a great club, an iconic feature of English football and yet it feels like we are about to speak of Tottenham in the past tense… these are not Sherwood’s players, they may not even be the choice of Andre Villas-Boas, but someone has to take responsibility for squandering £110million on purchases last summer.”

Are those the same waste-of-money players who only needed a guiding hand three months ago? We think they are…

Neil Ashton is an idiot. Who else would be delusional enough to think a man with no managerial CV could manage a club like Spurs with even the remotest hope of success? He got a few results against mid-table and bottom-half teams, but the minute his sides lined up against any serious opposition – like Arsenal in the FA Cup – he was shown up for having a very limited managerial skill set. Utterly predictable. Why do those who are supposed to know about these things talk such uninformed drivel? Stlll – what can you expect from a foul reactionary rag like the DM?

ThePoacher

Why is Neil Aston an idiot? we’ve had a chairman manage Spurs for 13 years who seems to have got more clueless the longer he’s stayed in the job. Aston’s right, or at least looks to be right, these aren’t Sherwoods players, and that might well be the biggest indictment of them all, Spurs players look gutless and at the slightest difficulty have collapsed ever since AVB took over. Tim could still be the man, but with this lot he was always on a hiding to nothing.

Simon Taylor

Levy’s pretty clueless when it comes to the football side of things – no argument there.

Simon Taylor

Most of the squad is fine. Lloris is France’s captain, there are two regular Brazillian internationals, Denmark’s best player – the list goes on. Sherwood inexplicably favours Bentaleb over Eriksen. He may be a good first team coach one day, but should he be sponsored to learn the skills he needs at Spurs’ expense?